Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-10-19

NY namlCe III HllneS.& by some C0roleSSneSS
cartridge was roughly struck and ire
mendous explosion resulted. Twelve Of
the persons present were blown into frag-
nents, three others died shortly afterward
and ~ others are expected to die, as trag-
ments OF cartridges, caps and wood had
been blown into their flesh. il $@..f s a.
A monster saw mill engine boiler
exploded at Centerville, West Virginia
tearing every thing loose in the neighbor.
hood, killing three men and wrecked the
engine and mill completely. A man named
Erwine was torn to pieces, having been
caught between the end Of the boiler and a
largelog. A man named Kent Evans was
also manned Some time after these two
taken out from behind pile Of lumber and
soon died of his wounds. 81
A telegram from Ballinger. Texas,
states that Sergt. J. A. Brooks, of Company
F, State Rangers, and Sheriff Formell, or
rested }. A. Newsonle, charged with being
the Lone highwayman who several times
robbed the stage between Ballinger and San
Angelo. Rev. j. II. Sewely of San Angelo
the time OF one robbery. Being in the city
he without any hesitation. declared the
prisoner to be the Identical lone highway
man. q. = *, e. I. p y
AtSmith's Ferry. Pa, S. Laughlin,
and daughter of Rookstown, and Mrs.
Christy, aged 80, of Alliance, O., while
riding in buggy met with a serious acct
dent. When near town the horse took
fright and made q sudden plunge throwing
Mrs. Christy out and over an embankment
among the rocks. +She received injuries
from which she died in few hours. Miss
Laughlin was badly injured. MIR: Laughlin
was also injured, but not fatally.
Fire broke out in the laundry Of the
Northern Ohio Insane Hospital at Cleveland,
enjoying their. weekly dance. Smoke
poured furiously into the room and panic
ensued. Six of the patients fell dead in the
room from suffocation and several others
were injured. The attendants and
physicians FafnSiciaa were very vigorous or the
damage to property was 900.
At the City of Mexico forty Senators
were in their seats today at, the third read
ing of the resolution to incorporate in the
Constitution the amendment making the
President eligible for second term. After
brief discussion the resolution was passed
Deputies, which will undoubtedly pass it,
when it viii be officially proclaimed.
For several days forest fires swept
over portions of four counties in the vicinity
Of the Bay Of San Francisco, California.
Whole farms were consumed. strewing the
ground with the carcasses of animals,
houses, mills, vineyards, miles Of timber
and all kinds of improvements were des-
homeless. The loss is immense.
The marriage Of Miss Nellie Garfield,
the late President Garfield, and
J.. Stanley Brown, her fathers former
private secretary, which was to have been
celebrated at high noon Wednesday Oct.
26, in the little Disciple church at Mentor,
has been postponed until later in the season.
The schooner Manzanclla sunk in
Lake Erie off Brooton, N. T. Capt. Ryan
who was left on board alone by his crew,
chung to pieces of the wreckage the vessel
sunk, and was picked up two hours later
by some fisherman, who went to his rescue
In the face of almost certain death. +
The British ship Monarch, Capt.
Corbett, from Manila, Aug. 30 for New
York, has been lost on Mindor Island. The
captain and three OF the crew, named
Drews, Bedford and Crupp, we've drowned.
The remainder Of the crew have arrived at
Manila. n & H. /. s. I'll Isl .r a4
!. Two men belonging to the night crew
Of a saw and planning mill at Cygnet, Lucas
Co., Ohio, were burned up in a fire that
destroyed the mill. Two other men were
badly injured.
Scotland Yard detectives are report
ed to be at Denver to watch prominent
members of the land league in the West
and it is said league detectives are watch
ing the others. ::
The Coroner in his, report on the
Kouts, Ind, accident places the response
cility onsthe train dispatcher and engineer
Robert Garrett has resigned the
Presidency Of the Baltimore & Ohio h. R.,
and the resignation has been accepted.
The Georgia Central depot at
Waynesboro, Ga, burned with 100 bales Of
cotton and other property. zssf z3s5sss
It is said that j. Randolph Tucker OF
Virginia, has been retained in the Chicago
anarchists case. ga
THE PRESIDENTS JOURNEY.
AT 9 q. ri, Monday the Presidents
train left Madison on the Chicago, MIL
waukee 81 st, Paul Hallway, and passing.
through many bright Wisconsin towns
reached Ia Crosse ct I p, M, where astopi
OF twenty minutes was made and the party
saluted with the booming Of cannon, the
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